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Hi, welcome to my personal blog, I answer to Chris or Cheese. I reblog a lot of fandom stuff, animal facts and once in a blue moon I might actually post something.

[kellyroman]

Picked some magnolia petals and discovered as they started to wilt at creases they turned a beautiful warm brown color. Then got the idea to use a silverpoint stylus to scratch a magnolia drawing into the petal~ smells divine

[onenicebugperday]

Moth butterfly caterpillar and adult, Liphyra brassolis, Lycaenidae

Liphyra brassolis, also known as the moth butterfly, is a butterfly found in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Australia that belongs to the family Lycaenidae (gossamer-winged butterflies). The larvae are predatory and feed on ant larvae.

Photos 1-6 by martinlagerwey, 7 by pennytaylor, 8 by tarun_karmakar, and 9 by rajibrudratariang

[tragbarerpanzrabwehrkomplexfagot]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

How did it get up there

[piratekayte]

It’s difficult to tell - typically light fixtures are installed using some combination of screws and brackets to affix them to the wall, but in this case the actual point of connection is obscured by a cat.

[gem-minnie]

“The years will go by, and everyone will find someone that matters more to them than you.”

[bwooomscratches]

[intersexstars]

any phone in mobile range in australia on the 27th of july, 2026, at 2pm AEST, will receive a practice alert from the commonwealth ausalert emergency warning system

this alert will be paired with a loud blaring noise from the device

i have gotten this news from the brisbane times

[aroacesafeplaceforall]

^^^

If you have hidden phones, get them out of the house or away from those who might hear.

If you are sensitive to loud noises, make sure to be far away from your devices.

There seems to be no way to silence the sound other then wait it out.

[dingdongyouarewrong]

i'm getting the sense some of you are not actually forklift certified.

[averagejoey2000]

[dingdongyouarewrong]

well damn . egg on my face

[dingdongyouarewrong]

THE PLOT THICKENS @averagejoey2000 explain yourself

[averagejoey2000]

I can't believe this is how I'm finding out that I got a scam forklift cert.

I took the cargo ops class at school but my teacher explained that it doesn't give a certification and I'd only be okay for ship's crane and the school forklifts. she said I could take an online exam and get my cert. I paid 60 bucks.

I'm googling and I'm seeing a lot of resources saying that the online programs cover the classroom part of the exam but not the in person practical aspect.

29 CFR 1910.178 (l)(2)(ii)

but I did the in person practical shit at school.

[averagejoey2000]

the back of the card even had fancy numbers on it. I couldn't have known that this isn't the one. this website sounded more official than certifyme.net, and there wasn't one with a .gov address.

[averagejoey2000]

so, I emailed OSHA, and they said that so long as I live and work in California, there's no such thing as forklift certification. I have to be told how to do it every time I get the job.

[averagejoey2000]

Update: I took a certification class in shipboard Material Handling Equipment at my federal job. *now* I'm forklift certified, but only on ships and piers and only for this company, but also rated to forklift explosives and hazardous materials. Also I'm a woman now.

[bramblepatch]

Grace explaining sheepishly to Eridian linguists that the reason he uses different pronouns for Rocky than for the rest of the population is that he reflexively defaulted to assigning Rocky the same grammatical and social gender that he himself uses, in a way that has historical precedent but in modern English is considered somewhat chauvinistic and backward, and he's not proud of it but also the habit is pretty deeply ingrained now and unless Rocky objects it's probably easier to just keep on as he has been...

and immediately being informed lol. lmao. do not even worry about it. you have no idea what kind of buck wild grammatical constructs Rocky has invented for you. everyone else addresses you as foreigner/scholar. they're somehow managing to refer to you as their sibling, ward, and semidivine culture hero at the same time every time they talk about you.

[generic-internet-name]

talking like point-and-click game narration to the bugs in my room

[generic-internet-name]

you can't get out that way!

[generic-internet-name]

that's not very helpful.

[generic-internet-name]

maybe the open window will help.

[generic-internet-name]

try the open window instead.

[thestuffedalligator]

Wound up talking about Soul Music to my partner recently, and I described it as a story about grief and memory; Susan is grappling with the question of whether or not her grandfather (who is Capital-D Death, as it turns out) was responsible for her parents’ deaths, and winds up being dragged into her grandfather’s work because he’s too busy trying to get blind drunk and forget about what he’s done. Because despite himself, despite the fact he swears he can give up emotion whenever he wants, he’s fucking aching in sorrow and guilt for having to do what he did, because he had to do it, because they chose to live a mortal life.

And then I paused and said, “And the main plot is that a welsh guy invents rock and roll,” and I think that’s the discworld experience summed up

[plentyblush]

Wife just started Birth By Sleep and I love Terra for being like this

[jame7t]

wore the green and yellow striped shirt to work on tuesday and a guy i work with is just calling me "undertale" instead of my name now

sorry to hear that undertale

[prokopetz]

Powered By the Apocalypse game where the playbooks are Flunky, Toady, Minion, Stooge, Lackey, Henchman, and Goon.

[lost-carcosa]

[pmamtraveller]

The Spectral Titans, by Anthony Machuca

[salticidaeily]

(source: John & Caleb, 2026. First Report of Cosmophasis rakata (Araneae: Salticidae) from India with Notes on Myrmecophilic Interactions)

Note that "myrmecophilic" in this context doesn't necessarily mean the spiders are buddies with the ants -- rather, these colorful tagalongs are squatters and cattle rustlers, constructing retreats in abandoned weaver ant nests and sneaking snacks from the ants' hemipteran "herds".

[adachi]

I had someone ask me "where are the pokemon cards" and I tried to direct her to the kids section and she got really indignat and went "no. Pokemon cards. Theyre like, collectibles" and I had to go No I know what those are. Those are kids playing cards. Kids section

[adachi]

She was trying to look behind the counter where we keep Gold Jewelry and Gucci Purses for pokemon cards